When people hear how I quit my job as a lawyer after six years of corporate work‚ they assume I burned out and fled the nine-to-five (or‚ more accurately‚ the nine-to-midnight)‚ leaving contracts‚ negotiations and lawsuits behind. In reality‚ I long had aspired to travel the world for a year‚ inspired by a documentary I saw in high school about trans-Siberian trains. Staring at the screen‚ watching birch trees and snow and a railroad track running for thousands of kilometres‚ I resolved to take
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• Narrative tasks may require you to write a story or part of a story; they may also ask you to write a true account. The purpose of your writing is to entertain the reader through the situation you have imagined and also to explore that situation and the characters involved in it • Remember how much time you have in the exam. Don’t try to write too complicated a story. Examiners want quality not quantity. • Don’t fill your writing with direct speech; it causes problems with punctuation and it’s
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girls should attend separate schools. 2. Technology has made the world a better place to live. 3. Advertising can tell you a lot about a country. 4. Modern technology is creating a single world culture. 5. Teachers should be paid according to how much their students learn. 6. Classmates are a more important influence than parents on a child’s success in school. 7. Grades (marks) encourage students to learn. 8. The best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide. 9. Children should
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My father is a very traditional‚ conservative‚ religious man. A product of his time‚ upbringing‚ and culture. Abandoned by his mother‚ neglected by his father‚ and raised by an aunt who already had too many children of her own‚ my father has always had to fend for himself. From an early age he had to start working‚ I was once told by him that in the absence of his father‚ he looked up to his bosses for a role model. A lot of them were drunks and chauvinist. My father grew around these men‚ idolizing
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People are learning and developing throughout their whole lives‚ they have gained knowledge not only from books but also from practice and experience. In my opinion‚ both basic knowledge from books and new discovery from experience are important. Reading books form a wide range of our knowledge. We can acquire a lot of information about almost every subject. Books contain knowledge‚ which is arranged and selected carefully from what authors think about real life‚ so they are easy to follow and
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Have you ever travel all around America well after I graduate high school my friend Adam Hewitt invited me to go on the work tour with them we went from state to state The job position with selling CDs it was a commission based paying job but the night right before it I went on this long trip was a doozy The trip was scheduled to leave at six in the morning. I was supposed to be getting ready‚ but I was too distracted by my friends be. I spent the previous day Doing nonsense errands‚ going to barbecues
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One Family‚ Two Societies Growing up in a Pakistani household I was expected not to question or disrespect my father in any way. My father who was raised in Pakistan was a stern man‚ and stubborn at that. My father and I never really talked about anything serious. There came a point where I started to think and express my own opinions‚ which were different from what my father had. Over the past year I had become more independent of my father due the growing differences between both of us. Being raised
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Ivory I Peace Job Log for the month of November 2012 I have been Appling for Customer Service jobs and I also have had one interview for this month…. 1. The A&F Group…(a division of integrity staffing) 2. Mohawk… (Provides a variety of customer service and office administration duties related to the sales of products.) Pay is 12 per hour. 3. VSSI Staffing Service... (Most of your time is spent answering questions posed by prospective schools and churches. (Via email
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the leading role of the internet in the scientific researches. It is a gigantic source of information that helps researchers find information in few seconds instead of searching in many books for weeks or even months. The smart researcher should know how to choose the best sites because
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In the novel‚ ‘How I Live Now’ by Meg Rosoff‚ the protagonist Daisy was thrust into an entirely different environment; a new country‚ a new family and the threat of impending war. Daisy faced and overcame many challenges during her time in London‚ which caused her character to grow and develop significantly. The author portrayed this idea well by incorporating the techniques imagery and narrative style into the writing of the text. These techniques helped me grasp the idea of ‘coming of age’ or ‘bildungsroman’
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